Smoky & The Bandit

Watching the original Fast & Furious on HBO Family right now. I forgot how entertaining that movie was. I'd love to know what they used for the engine note on the Bandit TransAm - it sounds wonderful. It also makes me want to find a late 70s TransAm to go rallycross.

I can attest to F-body and semi smooth dirt road fun! dunno bout a rally cross course. Seems like it would twist an F-body really good.

I feel like running some Yuengling to Boston, who wants to run blocker?

I still think Burt Renold's car movies are second only to Steve McQueen's

First movie I ever saw was Burt Reynolds in Hooper. What a great movie. I still like to watch it every once in a while. There is something special about watching a 70s era muscle car sling gravel and black top all over the place.

Might be time for a Reynolds night. Hooper, Smokey and the Bandit, and Cannon Ball Run. Just turn off the brain and watch them tear up stuff.

Jackie Gleason made Smokey and the Bandit. Well, I imagine the Trans Am helped.

pigeon wrote: Watching the original Fast & Furious on HBO Family right now. I forgot how entertaining that movie was. I'd love to know what they used for the engine note on the Bandit TransAm - it sounds wonderful. It also makes me want to find a late 70s TransAm to go rallycross.

In Smokey and The Bandit or in a goofy Vin Diesel movie?

Smokey and The Bandit should be a Pontiac W72 400 since the hood callouts show "T/A 6.6" which means a Poncho 400. That being said, they might have used a 455 HO car for the extra oomph needed for stunt work.

The car is a '76 T/A with the '77 nose stuck on for the movie. The Olds 403 wasn't available in '76 but it was available in '77 for automatic cars only. The 403 birds had "6.6 Litre" callouts on the shaker.

The Vin Diesel abomination is a Year One Trans Am with a Chevy LS7.

THAT car has an original body with the wrong head lamps, wrong wheels, wrong glass, wrong decals, wrong grilles, wrong airdams and generally looks like a toy compared to the real thing.

But that's just my opinion.

Shawn

I meant the Smokey car. My reference was to F&F was that Smokey was the original mindless movie about a fast car, at least for my generation. I assume that the motor's sound was a foley effect and not the actual motor, but I could be wrong.

Just picked up a copy from the Movie Gallery that was going out of business near my house. Along with Monty Python's Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, Strange Brew, Jay and Silent Bob, Trading Places, Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Team America: World Police, Groundhog Day, and Office Space.

pigeon wrote: I meant the Smokey car. My reference was to F&F was that Smokey was the original mindless movie about a fast car, at least for my generation. I assume that the motor's sound was a foley effect and not the actual motor, but I could be wrong.

Nope, as I recall, that's the actual sound of an angry 400.

My buddy's Ram Air III sounds a lot like it.

Shawn

He may be recalling the Dukes, where the "race car sound" of the General Lee was dubbed for the TV show.

pigeon wrote: I meant the Smokey car. My reference was to F&F was that Smokey was the original mindless movie about a fast car, at least for my generation. I assume that the motor's sound was a foley effect and not the actual motor, but I could be wrong.

There are older car movies that were mindless car flicks. Heck the original Gone in 60 Seconds or Gumball Rally come to mind.

Oh and when was there a Trans Am in a fast and furious movie? I must have missed that one.

I believe it is a Camaro, but it does have this:

rebelgtp wrote:

pigeon wrote: I meant the Smokey car. My reference was to F&F was that Smokey was the original mindless movie about a fast car, at least for my generation. I assume that the motor's sound was a foley effect and not the actual motor, but I could be wrong.

There are older car movies that were mindless car flicks. Heck the original Gone in 60 Seconds or Gumball Rally come to mind. Oh and when was there a Trans Am in a fast and furious movie? I must have missed that one.

At the end of the last one.

Ya want a mindless Burt Reynolds car-driving movie?

White Lightning.

aircooled wrote: I believe it is a Camaro, but it does have this:

Hot Rod Magazine's "Project F-Bomb".

JFX001 wrote:

aircooled wrote: I believe it is a Camaro, but it does have this:

Hot Rod Magazine's "Project F-Bomb".

Gawd, that makes me all squiggly inside.

now that is a camaro

The engine sounds in SATB came from a Pontiac 400. Mine sounds very similar. Trans_Maro is right about them using 76's with 77 noses too.

Also, if you see someone selling a Trans Am from the movie, they are lying. None have been found in existence, and I'm pretty sure the ones that weren't destroyed jumping through the backwoods of the south have been crushed by GM. Even Burt Reynolds' car that he has in his personal colection is not a movie car.

Trans_Maro wrote:

pigeon wrote: Watching the original Fast & Furious on HBO Family right now. I forgot how entertaining that movie was. I'd love to know what they used for the engine note on the Bandit TransAm - it sounds wonderful. It also makes me want to find a late 70s TransAm to go rallycross.

In Smokey and The Bandit or in a goofy Vin Diesel movie? Smokey and The Bandit should be a Pontiac W72 400 since the hood callouts show "T/A 6.6" which means a Poncho 400. That being said, they might have used a 455 HO car for the extra oomph needed for stunt work. The car is a '76 T/A with the '77 nose stuck on for the movie. The Olds 403 wasn't available in '76 but it was available in '77 for automatic cars only. The 403 birds had "6.6 Litre" callouts on the shaker. The Vin Diesel abomination is a Year One Trans Am with a Chevy LS7. THAT car has an original body with the wrong head lamps, wrong wheels, wrong glass, wrong decals, wrong grilles, wrong airdams and generally looks like a toy compared to the real thing. But that's just my opinion. Shawn

I'm just about certain that they did install a 455 for the stunts and that's where the sound came from

I should consult with the guys on my T/A message boards. They know every fact about every frame of each SATB movie.

rebelgtp wrote:

There are older car movies that were mindless car flicks. Heck the original Gone in 60 Seconds or Gumball Rally come to mind.

Yep. I don't recall there being much of a plot in The Junkman (Gone's sequel) either... at least in Burt's movies, there was an attempt.

The guy that built my cages in my two race cars built a couple of the stunt cars from the first SatB. He's got a picture of the one he built that jumped from the dirt road onto the Pee Wee Football game.

racerfink wrote: Just picked up a copy from the Movie Gallery that was going out of business near my house. Along with Monty Python's Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, Strange Brew, Jay and Silent Bob, Trading Places, Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Team America: World Police, Groundhog Day, and Office Space.

Nice score. All I found at my local Movie Gallery's going-out-of-business sale was Serenity, Team America, 4 discs of Futurama, Undercover Brother and a bunch of cheesy zombie movies. One gem amongst the cheese was Undead or Alive. Its a comedy/western/zombie movie and the only movie I've ever seen where Chris Kattan is funny.

Semi on topic: Call me crazy but I like the TBS version of Smokey and the Bandit. Gleason's dubbed in cussin' is just more funny than the original.

"You moose prick!"